Dear Roswell Presbyterian Church family,
The past two years have thrown most of our lives into major upheaval - life at RPC was no different! When 2020 kicked off, who could imagine that in just over two months, the entire church would be forced to reimagine itself while the world grappled with uncertainty? Well, reimagine it we did. As you’ll see from this Recap, everything from worship to mission outreach to discipleship adapted and re-adapted, and by the grace of God, we forged on with doing the important ministry that God has called us to.
We are still adapting, in fact. While we seek to settle into a new normal, we will always remain mindful of how we, as a church community, kept the faith during such a challenging time in our history. We learned and listened and leaned on each other. I am confident you’ll be encouraged by what you read in this Recap, knowing that God was, and is, always present among us.
Thank you for your prayers, contributions, and ministry over the last two years!
Rev. Jeff Meyers
Senior Pastor
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
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STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
In order to build on our blessings,
we believe God is calling us to
extend our ministry in
three key strategic areas:
- Engage more people
in worship - Enhance missional
engagement - Retain, increase,
and broaden
our membership
When the world shut down for Covid in early March, our Music & Worship team had to rethink the entire format of worship. With incredible grace under fire, they pivoted to a pre-produced service that captured the elements of worship and the hearts of our members during those early and uncertain days.
- 44 in-person worship services January through December 2020.
- 11 Vespers Worship Services In person during the fall of 2020
- 50 Chancel Choir members
- 20 Cantate Coeli members
- 7 Choral Scholars
- 23 music volunteers for the Modern Service
- 15 Carillons members
- 40 Virtual Worship Services
- 411.5 Average views a week for the Traditional Service during the three-week period of doing two pre-recorded services per week.
(March 15-April 5, 2020)
Our Mission Outreach team stepped up and out, serving our community in new and unexpected ways, staying safe while doing so. Within the RPC community, members were cared for and sustained.
During the pandemic we brought food to over 120 families on a weekly basis in five different local neighborhoods.
We created partnerships with Blessings in a Backpack, the Community Masjid, and Urban Recipe to help feed our neighbors.
- 550 encouragement notes were sent.
- 165 people received in-person, at-home Communion.
- $45,000 Donations raised during the Virtual Mission Auction on April 17, 2021.
- Over 40 backpacks and over 130 toys delivered to NFCC children.
- 60 supply bags for back-to-school, including hand sanitizer, were delivered to NAM children.
- Twice RPC served as host site for Fulton County Schools meal pick up.
- 59 Consecutive days our building provided a place to stay for families participating in Family Promise
- 28 lunch bags were delivered to the children in the NAM community 31 times.
- Over 500 food/toiletry items were supplied to our neighbors as needed from the food pantry started at RPC.
Our church community remained active in fellowship while mostly online. Zoom, never heard of before, became second nature.
- 550 people attended 38 community groups, connect groups, study groups, Bible Studies, and Sunday School classes –approximately 99% of them via Zoom!
- 215 Emails were sent for Closing the Distance, an online reflection for our RPC community. Initially written by our clergy, staff, and elders, the reflections transitioned to weekly Facebook live interviews.
- 8 Wit and Wisdom events were held (6 via Zoom) with hundreds of attendees in classes or small groups.
One of the biggest challenges was how to keep students engaged online when so much of their lives had turned to online learning. Our Children’s and Youth ministries transformed their methods, but not their mission, to foster lifelong relationships with Christ.
- Over 200 People attended one or more of the Friday Family Fellowships all while practicing COVID-19 protocol.
- 300 Children in Sunday School on an average week prior to March 15, 2020.
- Over 200 children attended VBS in June 2020, all virtually, including 43 NAM children,
- 100 Children in virtual Sunday School through the height of the pandemic.
- Almost 400 Students participated in mission and fellowship ryeX events. (including DOOR Atlanta and eXtreme), all masked and social-distanced.
- 19 NAM students in middle school and high school participated in weekly SSOC Zoom meetings.
Without typical resources, our staff continued to reach out to guests and visitors and made every effort to welcome people as well as encourage and comfort them.
- 141 new members joined RPC.
- 25 new member contacts were made.
- Almost 100 volunteers contacted the RPC congregation four different times.
- 625 lay parish visitor contacts were made.
- Over 25 Stephen Ministers served our community.
- 100 kits of Communion Elements were delivered to homes.
Thank you to our entire RPC community for your continued generosity through an especially challenging season. It is because of your support that RPC staff and volunteers can continue to serve and glorify Christ through each ministry.
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